Vessel
אַגָּןStrong’s H0101aggan (ag-gan)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aggan is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowls” and “bowl of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.”
Meaning
- Bowl, basinsbasins used in ritual · human body (metaph), curves of the body (simile) · of family of Eliakim (metaph)
How it's translated
- in bowls 1
- bowl of 1
- the bowls 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 7:2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
- Isaiah 22:24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
Hebrew dictionary
אַגָּן aggan · vessel
1) bowl, basins 1a) basins used in ritual 1b) human body (metaph), curves of the body (simile) 1c) of family of Eliakim (metaph)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vessel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VES'SEL, noun
[Latin vas, vasis. This word is probably the English vat.]
- A cask or utensil proper for holding liquors and other things, as a tun, a pipe, a puncheon, a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a dish, etc.
- In anatomy, any tube or canal, in which the blood and other humors are contained, secreted or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, spermatics, etc.
- In the physiology of plants, a canal or tube of very small bore, in which the sap is contained and conveyed; also, a bag or utricle, filled with pulp, and serving as a reservoir for sap; also, a spiral canal, usually of a larger bore, for receiving and distributing air.
- Any building used in navigation, which carries masts and sails, from the largest ship of war down to a fishing sloop.
All definitions and other forms of “vessel”
- Something containing.
VES'SEL, verb transitive
To put into a vessel [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.